SF Muni dispatch questioned in bus fatality

The Associated Press

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says Muni dispatch appears to have violated agency policy by failing to give a bus driver specific road directions to a new assignment before he fatally struck a pedestrian.

Muni spokesman Paul Rose said Monday the driver was therefore navigating a route he had selected when his vehicle hit 23-year-old Emily Dunn in a crosswalk in the city's Castro district on Friday.

Rose said investigators are still trying to determine who, if anyone, was at fault. But he told the San Francisco Chronicle (
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) that drivers are supposed to be given a route by dispatch when they are asked to switch lines.

The driver in Friday's incident, who has not been identified, was moving from the 27-Bryant line to an F-line shuttle, where additional service was needed.